The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If this is not the appropriate thread, I'd like to know which one is. I've looked around and don't see anything.

I'm not getting new tasks. I had set up my preferences to maintain enough work for 2 days (perhaps overly optimistic?). For a brief shining moment, I had a bunch of tasks but those days are gone, my friend; we thought they'd never end. . . .

Some others suggested having a front-page announcement of the degree of up or down status, but I expect that that would not be good PR. Still, a thread here in Technical News or perhaps over in Number Crunching would allow folks to check if they could expect work units any time soon.

Yes, fixing is more to the point than reporting and after a long problem time there'll be an even longer busy time, but perhaps a message at the beginning of an actual outage and another at the end (barring busy time when the world is hitting for more WU) would suffice.

Ross

Ross, (parl)

I see you just uploaded and reported two tasks and downloaded another just a few minutes ago. Since your machine seems to be taking quite awhile to complete each work unit, you might try uping your cache by a couple of days to get some more work. If that doesn't help please start a new thread in the number crunching forum and we will try to help you there.
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Thanks for the quick and helpful replies. I'll post more in Number Crunching to a new thread.

Ross
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Matt's still on board, but we're all a little overworked today, so he may not post tech news today (even though he's probably still working right now).

FYI (no critisism intendend, but this might be usefull information),
Here a small part of my stats-update-log (date's and times CET, dd-mm-yyyy):

Good Morning - On Spring Break ITC - Atlanta, GA

Anybody else getting this kind of messages:

08-Mar-10 11:34:48 SETI@home Reporting 1 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
08-Mar-10 11:34:53 SETI@home Scheduler request completed
08-Mar-10 11:35:06 SETI@home update requested by user
08-Mar-10 11:35:06 SETI@home update requested by user
08-Mar-10 11:35:08 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
08-Mar-10 11:35:08 SETI@home Not reporting or requesting tasks
08-Mar-10 11:35:10 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
08-Mar-10 11:35:12 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
08-Mar-10 11:35:13 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
08-Mar-10 11:35:18 SETI@home update requested by user
08-Mar-10 11:35:18 SETI@home update requested by user
08-Mar-10 11:35:18 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
08-Mar-10 11:35:18 SETI@home Not reporting or requesting tasks
08-Mar-10 11:35:19 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
08-Mar-10 11:35:20 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
08-Mar-10 11:35:23 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

Have a Blessed Day,



ront


ps - do appeciate the great work and support from all of the staff & volunteers
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yes we've discussed it before on the "Panic Mode.." thread on the Numbers Crunching forum. The easiest way to fix it is to shutdown BOINC and restart. thats all it took for my machine. For future reference Technical news topics are a bad place to put your personal troubleshooting topics. please try and read the Q&A section as well as the Numbers crunching forums. Or just "search" for the key words.
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Thank you.

Would you be so kind as to advise me as to where the "Q&A" is or how it can be reached?

Two points - In the time that I have been a member, I have seen many "personal topics" posted and addressed.

Next, there was no "panic" as you seem to indicate. I was merely inquiring to if this was yet another issue which impeding the reporting and downloading operations.

Again, thank you for the information and if you would respond to my question, that would be most helpful.

ront
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Thank you.

Would you be so kind as to advise me as to where the "Q&A" is or how it can be reached?

Thank you.

This information is most helpful.

ront
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18 days since last tech news from Matt. Have we upset him? lmao

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21 days
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I doubt that Matt took a holiday. We miss him dearly! In any case, it is my personal opinion that if Matt is not available for whatever reason, Eric c.s. would do well to keep us a little bit better informed about what takes place on the technical level. If only out of respect to all those crunchers all over the world who voluntary let their computers run for science.
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Has he been fired?

for running seti on computers which he wasn't authorized to. lol..

he's alive!!!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59157&nowrap=true#977497
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